<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:36 good evening police are scouring the auckland suburb of mangere tonight in a hunt for a dangerous prisoner who made a daring escape from auckland prison's maximum security block at paremoremo <,> he's forty two year old DEAN wycliffe who took a hostage during his escape but later released him in mangere <,> wycliffe made headlines when he become the first and only person to escape from the country's toughest prison fifteen YEARS ago his escape <&>1:00 today has renewed earlier fears of inadequate security at the prison simon mercep reports <&>1:05 <&>one minute fifty four seconds not transcribed <&>2:59 a thirty year old man has been charged with attempted murder after an armed offenders call out yesterday in the auckland suburb of manurewa he's been remanded in custody until monday <&>break in tape off a large area including an intermediate school after a man with a bullet wound in his chest stumbled into a manurewa house the armed offenders alert ended after several hours when police DETAINED a man in a house and recovered a pistol the injured man is now in a stable condition after surgery <,> a government m p says some elderly people are crying themselves to sleep at night afraid that cuts will be made to their guaranteed <.>reci retirement incomes and some m ps are finding that worries over g r i are bringing an increasing number of elderly people into their electoral offices kim webby reports <&>3:46 <&>one minute eighteen seconds not transcribed <&>5:04 several homes were evacuated in the south auckland township of otaua last night during a fire which destroyed an aerosol packaging factory the blaze set off a chain reaction of explosions caused by thousands of small aerosol cans <,> homes were evacuated because of the explosions and chemical fumes the factory was destroyed and fire safety officers are investigating the cause of the blaze <,> in northland officials have disposed of ten drums of hazardous waste discovered at an ILLEGAL dump northland regional <.>council er environmental officers raided the property at kaiwaka south of whangarei they dug up ten drums containing agricultural chemicals paint thinners printers ink and solvents the officers believe the chemicals could have leached into a nearby estuary the council may lay charges under the water and soil conservation act <,> sir howard morrison is in a comfortable condition in gisborne hospital after an operation today <&>6:00 to remove gall stones he was taken to hospital on wednesday after attending a charity fundraiser as part of his life education trust RIDE through the east coast three months ago sir howard underwent triple bypass heart surgery <,> an auckland teenager's battle against a rare bone marrow disease came to a sad end today anna kegan died after her body rejected a second marrow transplant the eighteen year old went to paris last year for treatment after an appeal raised more than three hundred thousand dollars a family friend says she died peacefully her funeral will be held on tuesday <,> a coroner has ruled a teenage boy died by misadventure after his remains were found in dense bush last april arjin krishnin was sixteen when he went missing from his palmerston north home in nineteen eighty five the medical causes of his death are unknown <,,> hundreds of south island freezing workers are anxiously waiting to hear whether or not they'll keep their jobs they're expecting the southland based alliance company to announce <&>7:00 restructuring plans and it's widely tipped that those plans will include the closing of TWO major works john mcdermot reports <&>7:05 <&>one minute eighteen seconds not transcribed <&>8:23 coming up new plans for an old symbol of south africa's apartheid regime there's also sport with jeremy <&>8:27 <&>four minute eight seconds of advertisements not transcribed <&>12:15 amnesty international has strongly criticised the british record on human rights especially in northern ireland the report's come out on the day of the funerals of two i r a men killed in an s a s ambush earlier this week and it was also the same day that the i r a killed one of its own men claiming he was a police informer <&>12:33 <&>one minute twenty five seconds not transcribed <&>13:58 in geneva american secretary of state james baker and soviet foreign minister besnyetnik tried to overcome differences and agree on a treaty to cut long range nuclear missiles such an agreement could pave the way for a bush gorbachev summit but the talks ended with mister baker saying there's still a fair amount of work to be done <,> robin island the infamous but now empty prison off capetown it's where nelson mandela spent eighteen years behind bars the last political prisoners left two weeks ago now there are plans to turn one of the grimmest symbols of apartheid in south africa into a tourist attraction <&>14:34 <&>one minute ten seconds not transcribed <&>15:43 south africa could return to international cricket in time for next year's world cup that's the prediction of australia's foreign minister gareth evans who's visiting there a new unified administrative <&>pronounced as ambidistrative body is expected to apply for recognition when the international cricket <&>16:00 council meets in july if accepted senator evans says they could play in the world cup but he says south africa's return to international rugby may take longer <,> now today's sport a real fright for auckland this afternoon jeremy <&>16:11